Vampires for "VIASAT MAGAZINE"

Another commission for "Viasat Magazine", this time for an article on vampires in modern-day film. The brief was to illustrate how celluloid bloodsuckers of the 21st century are more likely to be found stalking their victims in the local night-club than in the dark & dingy graveyard of yore. My first sketches looked like this:


The AD, who wanted the kind of colourful, comic-book style of illustration I've had success with in the past ( examples of which I'll post at a later date!) went for the third sketch, which was also my favourite. He quite rightly pointed out that my vampires were looking all Goth-like and traditional, though, so I updated their attire (and hairstyles) for the subsequent sketch:

I tried to have the disco's mirror-ball echo the full moon of the traditional vampire environment, and in the final colour version added dry-ice swirling around like graveyard mist. Our vampire couple each got an indeterminate bloody drink to suck on too. Bloody Marys, extra-bloody!